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Europe - With his eighth solo LP Tracker receiving much acclaim, guitarist and vocalist Mark Knopfler is in the midst of an eight month, 88-date world tour. A pair of DiGiCo SD7s is ensuring every nuance of these musically complex shows is heard clearly.

The tour is currently playing European arenas and festivals, with US and Canada theatres to follow. Front of House engineer Dave Dixon and monitor engineer Kerry Lewis are both mixing on DiGiCo SD7s.

"As well as Mark on guitar and lead vocals, the band features drums, bass guitar, two sets of keyboards, a second guitarist and two multi instrumentalists, who play a lot of different things including citterns, flutes, pipes and acoustic guitars," says Dave. "Mark and the second guitarist also play an array of electric and acoustic instruments, so there are around 90 inputs in total."

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Australia - On 16 August 2015, the Australian Netball Diamonds crowned their 2015 Netball World Cup campaign with their eleventh title, beating out 15 other nations, including arch rivals New Zealand in the grand final. A crowd of just under 17,000 at Sydney's Allphones Arena watched the Diamonds emerge triumphant, and Novatech Creative Event Technology were on hand to make sure that the final, and every game in the 10 days leading up to it, were presented with the best possible audio and technical production.

Novatech partnered with the Netball World Cup SYDNEY 2015 as their Technical Production Team, overseeing production for all their games, events around Sydney's Olympic Park. In addition to providing PA and support in the Arena itself, Novatech also handled preliminary and qualify games in the neighbouring Netball Central, the opening and closing ceremonies, presentations,

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UK - Starcloth, drapes, miniature lights and LED specialist S+H Technical was asked to provide a special magic touch for the Stargazing episode of the BBC's latest series of Marrying Mum & Dad, a popular programme on the CBBC channel where children take control of their parents' and step-parents' wedding days.

The requirement was for the stylish black wedding dress and matching waistcoat to twinkle joyously like constellations as bride Madeline and groom Shaugn took their wedding vows atop the world's tallest sculpture, Anish Kapoor's Orbit in London's Olympic Park.

The idea was the brainchild of children Jade (13), Grace (9) and Seb (10) who took all the major decisions - theme, venue, outfits, entertainment, etc. - for their parents' Big Day, with a little bit of assistance from series presenters, Ed Petrie and Naomi Wilkinson.

Infracombe, Devon based S+H's T

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UK - At the PLASA Show this year, Autograph is celebrating three historic relationships; Meyer Sound, Clear-Com and DiGiCo.

For Meyer Sound, Autograph is showing the loudspeaker manufacturer's newest linear high power compact line array, the LEOPARD, plus associated LFC sub, which are part of the LEO family of loudspeakers.

From Clear-Com comes the new FreeSpeak II, 1.9GHz digital wireless intercom system, the HelixNet digital wired comms system, plus the HME DX210 wireless intercom system.

Digital console manufacturer DiGiCo is represented with the SD10T - the only theatre specific version of the console at the show - and the new S21 entry-level console that retains all the features and values DiGiCo is known for in terms of quality, ergonomics and style, at a price point that allows even more audio engineers to join the DiGiCo family.

Finally, a selection of microphones

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UK - Highlighted on Area Four's stand (H10) is the EXE CELL - Load Cell Interface system. Fully integrated into an EXE Rise chain hoist body, the PLASA Award for Innovation nominated system is designed to give riggers the possibility to see in real time, the individual weight applied to the chain hoist during all rigging operations. It can be operated as a stand-alone load sensor, or as part of a load monitoring network of chain hoists. The system is truly integrated, with the load cell discretely built into the hook assembly and an LED display, built into a metal end cover that can replace the standard end casing of the hoist.

Also highlighted on the Area Four stand are a range of truss solutions from Milos, Litec, James Thomas Engineering and Tomcat. Visit the team on stand H10 to find out more.

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UK - Visitors to PLASA Show 2015 are invited to attend this evening's PLASA Awards for Innovation ceremony, taking place at 6pm in the Sennheiser Audio Showcase seminar theatre on the show floor.

Sponsored by Lighting&Sound International, the PLASA Awards for Innovation recognise and reward new product ideas. Nominated products have met at least one of the Awards' criteria for 'Innovation' - to offer a new style of thinking, an improvement in existing technical practice, a new or improved aid to safety, a new commercial advantage, use new patents or unique intellectual property, or introduce new technology, materials or manufacturing techniques.

The final assessment of those claims is taking place at the PLASA Show, where an independent panel of industry experts are busy judging the entries, based on the strength of their innovation alone. Respected for their impartiali

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UK - Lighting and video control specialist Avolites has gone all out for PLASA Show this year with a brand new stand designed to echo the coherence of the current Titan and Ai product ranges.

The stand features two specific areas, focusing on Network functionality and Lighting and Video integration. Avolites' stand D10 is promoting a compatible family of products which all work intuitively together. Highlights of on-stand products include the new Arena console with Optical Titan Net Switch, both of which are shipping on the date of the show. In addition, new software in Titan version 9.1, featuring enhanced pixel mapping functionality, fully custom Key Frame Shape engine and fully featured theatre functionality.

Avolites' Koy Neminathan comments: "Day one has gone very well - a lot of people have been complimenting our new stand design; we produce professional products an

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UK - ArKaos PRO, pioneers in interactive video technologies, is exhibiting at PLASA Show 2015 on the stand of its exclusive UK distributor, White Light (C30). ArKaos PRO is demonstrating the latest version of its MediaMaster software which has consistently remained at the forefront of the industry's creative projection and LED applications. MediaMaster 4.2 which was released earlier this year, adds an integrated Cue Player for reliable, accurate playback of visual sequences, and 4K support which enables three layers of 4K video to be played on servers with a Core i7 processor. MediaMaster 4.2 is available as a free upgrade to existing MM 4.x users.

An impressive ceiling of LED light sources is being used to showcase MediaMaster 4.2 on the stand, alongside ArKaos LEDMapper, its all-in-one LED show control solution. LEDMapper delivers LED show control in three easy steps, working

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UK - Amongst the highlights on TMB's stand at PLASA Show 2015 is the PLASA Award for Innovation nominated Solaris LED - SoLED W840 strobe. The unit provides 92,000 lumen output at one-fourth the power consumption and half the size of conventional strobes and boasts a linear array of Cree LEDs and advanced driver software which provides "the punch and feel of xenon," says TMB.

Also showing is the ProPlex EZ-LAN Unity 20. Also nominated for an Innovation Award, TMB says EZ-LAN makes today's complex show networking easier and accessible for everyone. "These simple to operate yet powerful Gigabit Ethernet switches distribute up to four discrete networks - lighting, audio, content, server, console, or communications - quickly, effortlessly, and simultaneously. Users untrained in the complexities of managed networking can easily isolate networks and access and change VL

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UK - SSE Audio Group has announced the development of a successor product to PROSIGHT, which was the first laser inclinometer product designed for setting the angle of speaker line arrays.

"We have been working on the development of Prosight2 for the last 18 months", commented SSE Sales Director, Alex Penn. "Our design brief was to create a more compact device that offered more features, but also that could be brought to market at a more competitive price point."

The new unit will be on display on the SSE Audio / Wigwam stand (L10) at PLASA 2015 and the first production models are expected to be available for sale by the beginning of November 2015.

Also on show on the SSE stand is AVID's latest VENUE modular console - the S6L live mixing system; d&b audiotechnik's Yi line array series, together with V7P and V10P, a new breed of point source loudspeaker an

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UK - RC4 Wireless is showcasing its RC4Magic-DMXpix at PLASA Show 2015. A nominee for the PLASA Awards for Innovation, the RC4Magic-DMXpix is a tiny wireless DMX driver for pixel LEDs. It runs two separate pixel strings with customizable multi-channel profiles to create beautiful pixel effects utilising up to 3000 output channels.

Using RC4MagicPC software or RDM, users can specify the string type, DMX start channel, and various effects parameters for each driver. "Control the magic from your DMX console in real time," says RC4. Also on-board are a standard DMX data port, and an I2C interface for use with Arduino and more. Only 61mm x 36mm x 20mm, the DMXpix is the future of portable, spectacular pixel displays.

Jim Smith, president and chief product designer at RC4 Wireless, says: "The DMXpix is a pixel driver which is portable, wireless and updatable to accomm

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UK - Launched last September, Current RMS has been working hard building new features into the system, now being used in over 400 event rental businesses worldwide.

To celebrate a year on, the Current team has launched a new website as well as the release of the new Resources Module. Now, Current not only manages all of the renting and sale of products but also the services that go with these jobs too whether that be crew, transport, venues or rooms.

Key features of this new Module include: View all your bookable resources and any job with unallocated services; Flexible service charging by; hours, days or distance; Simple resource allocation using drag and drop functionality; Handy iCal feed for all resource bookings; Use Stores to determine the whereabouts of your resource; Specify periods of unavailability for bookable resources.

The Current team can currently be found dem

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UK - ArKaos PRO, pioneers in interactive video technologies, is exhibiting at PLASA Show 2015 on the stand of its exclusive UK distributor, White Light (C30). ArKaos PRO is demonstrating the latest version of its MediaMaster software which has consistently remained at the forefront of the industry's creative projection and LED applications. MediaMaster 4.2 which was released earlier this year, adds an integrated Cue Player for reliable, accurate playback of visual sequences, and 4K support which enables three layers of 4K video to be played on servers with a Core i7 processor. MediaMaster 4.2 is available as a free upgrade to existing MM 4.x users.

An impressive ceiling of LED light sources is being used to showcase MediaMaster 4.2 on the stand, alongside ArKaos LEDMapper, its all-in-one LED show control solution. LEDMapper delivers LED show control in three easy steps, working

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USA - The National Football League is implementing Green GO Digital Intercom across its Instant Replay and Injury Review systems this season. Through extensive testing, Green GO has modified existing products to more closely align with the NFL's specific requirements.

"We've been extremely pleased with the responsiveness and flexibility of Green GO and Nova Lume in developing products and software to meet our needs", says John Cave, vice president of information technology for the NFL. "It is important to us for Green GO to develop a solution that would last for many years and become standard product instead of a custom solution."

Green GO provides up to 32 channels with as many as 250 groups and 3,000 users, giving the League the ability to create discrete groups and user-to-user channels both on and off the field. The system's ability to interface directl

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UK - At PLASA Show 2015, Jon Driscoll, Paul Pyant and Peter Mumford will today present a seminar session entitled 'Lighting and Video Design' as part of PLASA's popular seminar stream.

The seminar will discuss how a lighting designer and video / projection designer create an understanding and language of collaboration and how a working relationship develops to successfully combine the two disciplines of manipulating the use of light in live performance.

The session takes place today at 10.15 in the Lighting showcase theatre at PLASA Show 2015.

For more information about PLASA Show or to register please visit www.plasashow.com/seminars.

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UK - Block9's Gideon Berger and Stephen Gallagher are set to present a seminar session entitled 'Making Music Look Good' today at PLASA Show 2015.

Based in East London, Block9 creates radical stage sets, large-scale immersive artworks, installations and live events. Recent work includes The Dismaland Castle at Banksy's Dismaland, Utopia at the Roundhouse, the Block9 area at Glastonbury festival and stage designs for Lana Del Rey and Skrillex.

"Innovative live music and performance programming form a major part of Block9's festival work," says Gideon. "We construct complete temporary realities. Our unique venues - Genosys, The NYC Downlow or The London Underground for example - are musical utopias where fantastical structures are built around specific musical genres, resulting in powerful immersive experiences. Every detail of our installations; everything that y

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UK - Britannia Row's Mike Lowe, Colin Pink and Luca Stefani will today present 'Training in the Production Industry - A Vision for the Future; Creating a live mix; A talk on System Prediction, Analysis and Optimisation'.

"The traditional training grounds for young people entering the live audio industry are in the main, a distant memory," says Mike. "Technology has advanced and can no longer be learned solely on the job. Audience expectations of audio quality are forever on the increase and budgets determine that there is usually only room for technicians and engineers who know what they are doing. The 'pioneer' generation of live engineers and technicians are reaching retirement age, while the requirement for live audio continues to increase.

"Most available live audio training or education comes either as a minor adjunct attached to studio engineering or

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UK - Elation Professional is hosting several world premiere product launches at PLASA Show 2015. Joining the world premiere of the Satura Profile LED-based colour-changing moving head is the ACL 360 Roller, a unique moving head luminaire in Elation's ACL Series of high-output narrow-beam LED effects; and the world premiere of the Platinum HFX, a new mid-sized addition to Elation's hybrid family of beam, spot and wash luminaires.

Also showing is the European debut of the Emotion moving head digital luminaire; Elation's powerful Platinum FLX hybrid moving head; and the high-output ACL Series of narrow-beam LED effect lights.

The new ACL 360 Roller is a unique moving head luminaire in Elation's ACL Series of high-output narrow-beam LED effect lights. It houses 20x 15W RGBW 4-in-1 LEDs positioned equally across four bars and features fast and precise 16-bit continuous 360° pan

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UK - Pixar's director of photography Danielle Feinberg will today present a seminar entitled 'Pixels to Pictures - The Cinematography of Pixar's Films' as part of PLASA's industry leading Professional Development Programme at PLASA Show 2015.

"Cinematography: the art of lighting and photographing a movie. Translated into animation, how does this work? In this insightful talk, Pixar Director of Photography Danielle Feinberg will shed light on the magic of cinematography in animated film and how the creative freedom computers allow must be harnessed for ultimate storytelling," say organisers.

"After hearing about PLASA for years, I am so thrilled to be taking part this year," says Danielle. "It is a rare and wonderful thing to be in a room full of people that appreciate the immense power of great lighting."

The session takes place today at 2.30pm

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UK - As PLASA Show 2015 opened its doors yesterday at ExCeL London, visitors from 101 different countries, with a combined purchasing power of over £3bn, had registered to attend.

With headline sponsors Robe, Clay Paky and TMB, this year's show features over 300 brands, many of which are showing new products and services, and sees PLASA Show adopting the successful 'Focus' model of a sector-specific, zoned layout, which will allow both visitors and exhibitors easier networking and navigation.

Over 50 leading brands from the pro audio sector are in attendance, with many new names joining that list including A.C. Entertainment, Autograph, d&b Audiotechnik, FACE, FBT UK, Flare Audio, POLARaudio, Ten 47, Unity Audio, White Light, Yamaha, SSE Audio and Wigwam Acoustics.

The lighting zone features manufacturers such as Altman, Avolites, Elation, ETC, Laserworld AG, and Robe,

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UK - Philips Entertainment Lighting is showcasing the eagerly anticipated 'PL Refresh' range at PLASA London which sees the Philips Selecon PLprofile1, PLfresnel1 and PLcyc1 reinvigorated with brand new features.

Joining valued dealer A.C. Entertainment Technology Ltd on stand F30, Philips will also be demoing the latest products from Philips Vari-Lite, Strand Lighting and Showline, which have enjoyed global success since launching this year.

A much-loved range of workhorses, the PL1 MK II Series now offers boosted colour benefits such as colour consistency across the family of matched products, increased colour rendering and no colour fringing. The MK II luminaires will also have a higher output balanced with reduced operating sound.

"We are really excited to demo all the fantastic additional features of the PL MK II range to PLASA London visitors," says Philips E

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UK - Today at PLASA Show 2015 renowned pro audio journalist Phil Ward will host an Audio Panel as part of PLASA's popular seminar stream. The session, entitled 'Digital Mixing for the Real World - More MIDI, Please - Mixing monitors for artistic temperaments' will be presented by Lee Boylan, Léon Phillips, Nick Bellis, Sean Karpowicz; Jon Burton, Justin Grealy, Marcel van Limbeek, and Tuomo Tolonen

"Today's pro audio sessions are all about mixing live music in today's rapidly changing industry," says Phil, "especially at the coal face of technical issues ranging from compact digital solutions - right down to the use of tablets - to the spectrum challenge now facing all wireless production. I couldn't have hoped for a better panel line-up..."

The session takes place at 11.30 - 12.15 in the Sennheiser sponsored Audio Theatre at PLASA Show 2015.

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UK - Cadac is showing the CDC eight and new CDC six digital sound production consoles at this year's PLASA show. These are being shown for the first time with the latest software update, which provides signal clocking enhancements that further improve the exceptional sonic performance. The software is described as having "a definite noticeable improvement on sound quality".

The company is exhibiting a total of three CDC six consoles, along with a CDC eight-32 and a CDC eight-16 console on the booth. These are networked and running audio via the CDC MC Router and MegaCOMMS audio network, demonstrating the industry leading sub 400?s system latency (from on-stage inputs to outputs - including all console processing and all AD/DA conversions). CADAC's micro second latency performance compares with the millisecond latency claimed for competing consoles and networks. The lat

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UK - The eighth Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) ceremony was held on Sunday 4th October at London's glamorous art deco Troxy to sparkling success.

Once more it saw representatives from the professional entertainment lighting and video industry come together to celebrate the creative achievements of lighting and video professionals working on shows across the UK.

The ever-popular awards, organised by The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), The Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), The Fifth Estate Ltd and Clay Paky, was established to offer public recognition for outstanding achievements in touring, television and theatre lighting and video design.

The evening was hosted by prolific international lighting designer Mark Jonathan and the winners were announced as:

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Dance: Lucy Carter for Woolf Works, Royal Ballet.

Musicals: Amy Mae Smith f

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